Re: Portability and usage statistics (was Re: Seppuku and x_IO_error_handler() )
SL Baur <steve(a)xemacs.org> writes:
O.K. Let's move on to SGI/Irix. Are we passed the traditional
XEmacs
Fuckage or aren't we? I don't know. Darren Stalder was kindly enough
to donate access to a system to test on and ... I never heard heard
anything since from the SGI volunteer.
I thought Olivier fixed problems with IRIX.
O.K. So let's try Solaris. It's the most popular commercial
Unix
in the market, surely it is getting developer support?
I'm working solely on Solaris. Do I count as "supporting" it?
I've never bothered to make the EOS stuff work, though.
*Wrong*! We continue to get crash reports with annotations tickled
by the EOS support. There have been hundreds if not thousands of
these reports since they've been aimed at me. Is there any
developer running with Sun Solaris? Hello?
You rang?
DEC OSF/1 on Alpha has had a long history of breakage with noone
working on it.
As far as I know, XEmacs works on Digital Unix. At least with gcc it
does.
That is my world view, and that is why I consider commercial Unix
support falling apart at the seams.
I'm not buying this. Your "analysis" above is way too ad-hoc. Sorry.
If *you* don't like it, do something about it or send me
equipment
and software with appropriate licenses and I can take a look at it.
Don't just complain about it. It doesn't do anyone any good.
Saying that being portable is "just not as important as it used to be"
doesn't help the situation either.
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